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A review of the Old World Scrobipalpula (Gelechiidae), with special reference to central and northern Europe
Abstract
The Old World species of the genus Scrobipalpula Povolny, 1964 are reviewed, with special reference to central and northern European taxa. Altogether 4 species, namely S. psilella (Herrich-Schaffer, 1854), S. ramosella (Muller-Rutz, 1934) sp. rev., S. diffluella (Frey, 1870) and S. tussilaginis (Stainton, 1867) are accepted as valid. Adults and genitalia of both sexes are figured. S. retusella (Rebel, 1891) syn. n., comb. n. is a new synonym of S. tussilaginis (Stainton, 1867). S. psilella f. compositella Povolny, 1964 is an invalid species-group name, as are the nomina nuda astericolellum Hering, 1957, ptarmicae Hering, 1957 and uniflorellum Hering, 1957. The lectotype designation of Aristotelia imperatella Dumont, 1931 by Viette (1951) is rejected and this taxon is transferred from Scrobipalpula to Ephysteris Meyrick, 1908.
... Male genitalia are mounted and illustrated in a ventral, unspread (unopened) position which result in parts overlapping in a confusing way; the phallus is illustrated in inconsistent orientations which affect its aspect (curvature, dentation). The technique of "unrolling" complex male genitalia of Microlepidoptera (Pitkin 1986) maximizes the display of characters and has been used effectively to illustrate Gnorimoschemini (for example, Huemer 1988Huemer , 1996Huemer and Karsholt 1998;Huemer & Karsholt 1999;Elsner et al. 1999) but it was never adopted by Povoln!. Female genitalia are shown only in part, usually the 8 th sternum and sterigma (sclerotization surrounding the genital opening or ostium bursae), and the signum. ...
... The genus Scrobipalpula differs from other Gnorimoschemini genera in the structure of the genitalia, with a striking spatulate gnathos that is unique to the genus (Huemer & Karsholt 1998). About 40 species are known, mostly from the Neotropics, distributed as far south as Patagonia and Andes (Povoln!, 1987). ...
... This is a species complex with probably more than one species involved. Like many Gnorimoschema species, individuals in this complex are rather variable and show a range of dark-to-light wing pattern forms (Huemer & Karsholt 1998). The DNA barcodes also show a wide range of shallow variation that may represent potentially distinct species, although no geographic correlation could be observed. ...
Report prepared for Department of Environment, Government of Yukon
30 October 2009
... tussilaginis (Stainton, 1867), widespread in Europe Povolný, in his monograph on the tribe Gnorimoschemini (2002) considered the above-mentioned taxa as forms of one "superspecies" i.e., Scrobipalpula psilella based on the "homogenous morphotype" of their genitalia. The European representatives of the genus have been reviewed by Huemer & Karsholt, 1998 and been treated in detail by the same authors in 2010. They established and justified the validity of the five taxa as separate species based on wing pattern and small but constant differences in male genitalia. ...
Scrobipalpula erici sp.n. is described from an alpine limestone biotope in the Swiss Alps. It is compared morphologically, genitalically, by DNA barcode and by its biology to S. ramosella (Müller-Rutz, 1934) and S. seniorum Povolný, 2000.
... Currently it is considered a junior synonym of S. salicorniae (Huemer & Karsholt 2020: 107). (Amsel, 1939) (Figs 51-52) has been synonymized with S. salinella by Povolný (1964: 353), but recently reinstated to full species rank; it is a rarely recorded species, known only from Sardinia (the type locality) and Bulgaria (Tuzlata) (Huemer & Karsholt 2010: 184 Povolný, 1964 was revised by Huemer & Karsholt (1998). Earlier the taxa of the genus were treated as a unique polytypical species with a wide distributional range (Povolný 2002: 84-86). ...
This study of the Romanian Gelechiidae fauna deals with 317 species placed in 80 genera arranged in two different lists. The main list comprises 293 species in 78 genera currently accepted for the Romanian fauna, including 286 named and 7 other so far unidentified and probably undescribed species. 269 species (almost 92 %) were identified from examined material, the other 24 are derived from the literature. 30 species are recorded for the first time for the Romanian fauna: Aproaerema cinctelloides (Nel & Varenne, 2012), A. suecicella (Wolff, 1958), A. semicostella (Staudinger, 1871), Dactylotula kinkerella (Snellen, 1876), Bryotropha patockai Elsner & Karsholt, 2003, Aristotelia decoratella (Staudinger, 1879), Psamathocrita argentella Pierce & Metcalfe, 1942, Ptocheuusa paupella (Zeller, 1847), Metzneria diffusella Englert, 1974, Monochroa tekovella Kosorín, 2020, Athrips aquila Junnilainen, 2010, Chionodes ignorantella (Herrich-Schäffer, 1854), Gelechia senticetella (Staudinger, 1859), G. dujardini Huemer, 1991, Scrobipalpa acuta Povolný, 2001, S. selectella (Caradja, 1920), S. gallicella (Constant, 1885), S. nitentella (Fuchs, 1902), S. monochromella (Constant, 1895), S. thymelaeae (Amsel, 1939), Scrobipalpula tussilaginis (Stainton, 1867), Ephysteris deserticolella (Staudinger, 1871), Lutilabria lutilabrella (Mann, 1857), Caryocolum amaurella (Hering, 1924), C. petryi (Hofmann, 1899), C. pullatella (Tengström, 1848), C. blandulella (Tutt, 1887), Teleiopsis laetitiae Schmid, 2011, Xenolechia aethiops (Humphreys & Westwood, 1845) and Stenolechiodes pseudogemmellus Elsner, 1996. There are 6 other new additions, their records were overlooked and not included in the checklists: Apodia martinii Petry, 1911, Monochroa conspersella (Herrich-Schäffer, 1854), Ptycerata cryptoxena (Gozmány, 1952), Scrobipalpa salicorniae (Hering, 1889), Lutilabria prolata Junnilainen & Nupponen, 2010 and Agonochaetia terrestrella (Zeller, 1872). Additionally, 78 first records for the different regions of Romania are provided. The previously unknown females of Aproaerema incognitana (Gozmány, 1957) and A. semicostella (Staudinger, 1871) are described. A misinterpretation is shown in the literature concerning Bryotropha azovica Bidzilya, 1996. This species is currently known only from Ukraine (type locality) and Romania, all other records of B. azovica sensu Karsholt & Rutten, 2005 from Turkey, Cyprus, Greece, Bulgaria and North Macedonia are based on misidentifications and represent a different, as yet unnamed, species. An annotation is given for all listed taxa summarizing the current knowledge: the general distribution, the first Romanian record, the regional distribution and a concise enumeration of recent collecting sites based on both material examined and literature. Detailed data are given only for the first Romanian records or those of the regions of the country, and in the case of a few rarely recorded species. The habitats and collecting methods are mentioned, but concise data referring to the biology are only exceptionally given. The 23 species for which no material could be found for examination are treated as in need of confirmation. In a second list are treated 24 species and 2 genera mentioned earlier from Romania, but currently deleted from the checklist, out of this 8 species and 1 genus are now deleted: Aproaerema larseniella (Gozmány, 1957), Helcystogramma albinervis (Gerasimov, 1929), the genus Pectinophora Busck, 1917 including P. gossypiella (Saunders, 1844), Bryotropha plebejella (Zeller, 1847), Ptycerata furfurella (Staudinger, 1871), Oxypteryx nigritella (Zeller, 1847), Chionodes nebulosella (Heinemann, 1870) and Scrobipalpa salinella (Zeller, 1847). Replacing the Gelechiidae in the latest Romanian checklist (Rákosy & Goia 2021) with this list is recommanded
... Host plants remain unknown for many species of Neotropical Scrobipalpula. The available data suggest that their larvae primarily feed as leaf miners or leaf tiers on Asteraceae, with Chenopodiaceae, Polemoniaceae, Rosaceae, Scrophulariaceae and Solanaceae also recorded (Huemer & Karsholt 1998Powell & Povolný 2001;Robinson et al. 2010;Adamski et al. 2014). Thus the host plant and feeding habit of S. wilsoni agree with the pattern more frequently recorded for the genus. ...
Male and female adults of Scrobipalpula wilsoni sp. nov. are described and illustrated from the coastal valleys of the Atacama Desert of northern Chile, based on specimens reared from leaf tier larvae collected on the shrub Baccharis salicifolia (Ruiz & Pav.) Pers. (Asteraceae). The morphology of the male genitalia of S. wilsoni resembles that of S. transiens Povolný, 1987, endemic to central Chile; however, morphological details of the uncus, gnathos, valva, the paired process of the sacculus and the phallus enable separation of the two species. Pairwise distances of a DNA barcode sequence of S. wilsoni with congeneric species ranged from 7.4 to 9.2% (K2P).
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... Becker (1984) listed 19 species of Scrobipalpula from the Neotropical Region, and Hodges (1983) listed 12 species from the Nearctic Region. Several species are known from the Palearctic Region, and none are known from sub-Saharan Africa, the Australian Region, or the Oriental Region, except from Nepal (Huemer and Karsholt 1998). Undoubtedly, more species remain to be described and studied. ...
Maps of the chaetotaxy and scanning electron micrographs supplement a text description of the larva and pupa of Scrobipalpula patagonica Povolný (Lepidoptera: Gelechiidae: Gnorimoschemini). Scrobipalpula patagonica is a gall inquiline of Suaeda divaricata Moq. (Amaranthaceae) in the "Monte" region of Argentina. The habitus of S. patagonica is provided along with images of the semiarid habitat of its host plant and associated gall. The parasitoids known to attack S. patagonica are summarized. © 2018 Entomological Society of Washington. All rights reserved.
Genitalia morphology of a new gnorimoschemine micromoth (Lepidoptera, Gelechiidae, Gelechiinae, Gnorimoschemini) discovered in the Atacama Desert, northern Chile, fits the original description of Scrobipalpulopsis Povolný, 1987, a genus previously synonymized with Scrobipalpula Povolný, 1964. The generic assignment of the new species was assessed using a Bayesian phylogenetic analysis based on mitochondrial DNA sequences. The new species, the type species of Scrobipalpulopsis and another species recently transferred from this genus to Scrobipalpula were grouped in a monophyletic cluster distantly related to that of Scrobipalpula . Furthermore, an ancestral state reconstruction analysis suggested that the presence of two pairs of processes on the vinculum in the male genitalia represents a synapomorphy for the cluster of three species. Accordingly, the revalidation of Scrobipalpulopsis gen. rev. (type species Phthorimaea stirodes Meyrick, 1931) and the reinstated combination Scrobipalpulopsis lutescella (Clarke, 1934) comb. rev. are proposed. The micromoth Scrobipalpulopsis aguilaensis sp. nov. , whose larvae feed on inflorescences of the Chilean endemic Glandularia gynobasis (Verbenaceae), is described and illustrated. Genetic divergence with congenerics was found to be 2.5–4.4% (K2P). This discovery represents the first record of Scrobipalpulopsis from the Atacama Desert.
A synopsis of the Chilean Gelechiidae (Lepidoptera: Gelechioidea) is presented, including an annotated list of species with geographic distributions and a compilation of previous references. New distribution records for four species are provided. Se presenta una sinopsis de los Gelechiidae de Chile (Lepidoptera: Gelechioidea), que incluye un listado, con su distribución geográfica y una recopilación de antecedentes bibliográficos previos. Se entregan nuevos registros de distribución para cuatro especies.
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Recent data on the microlepidopterans of Saxony, with notes on other federal states (Lepidoptera) - From study of recent collections and of microlepidopterans kept at the Museum für Tierkunde in Dresden (MTD), the following additions and corrections to the "Verzeichnis der Schmetterlinge Deutschlands" (GAEDIKE & HElNICKE 1999) resulted for Saxony: 42 species are recorded for the first time, four of which were collected only before 1980; 69 species are recorded for the firsttime since 1980, while 6 previously recorded species were recorded in error, because of misidentifications or a printer's error, respectively. The new first records include Ectoedemia klimeschi, which is not listed for Gerrnany by GAEDIKE & HElNICKE (1999). The study of historic collections at the MTD resulted in first records of 5 species of Coleophoridae in RhinelandPalatinate
and of I species in Hesse. Antispila treitschkiella is recorded from Bavaria for the firsttime since 1980. 4 species are recorded for the first time from Saxony-Anhalt and one from Thuringia, from where there are also
4 firsttime records since 1980. Scoparia conicella is recorded from Baden-Württemberg for the first time. The
occurrence of Gesneria centuriella in Germany is confirmed from historic specimens from Baden-Württemberg and Rhineland-Palatinate. The doubtful occurrence of Cholius luteolaris in Germany is discussed.
This is the seventh compilation of Microlepidoptera collected in The Netherlands, covering the year 1993. Four species are recorded for the first time from The Netherlands: Blastodacna vinolentella (Agonoxenidae), Mompha bradleyi (Momphidae), Teleiodes scriptella (Gelechiidae) and Aethes beatricella (Tortricidae). Differences in the external characters or genitalia of the following species are discussed: Aethes beatricella, A. dilucidana, A. flagellana, A. francillana, and Eudemis porphyrana and E. profundana.
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S, Nordtirol, Franz Sennhütte, 2300 m, 10.vi.1950, leg. Burmann; <J, ditto,
but 2700 m, 17.vi.1949; 3 $, Nordtirol, Leutkircherhütte, 2300 m, ll.vii.1941,
leg. Burmann; 2 $, Osttirol, Virgental, Venedigergruppe. Sajatmähder E,
2450-2500 m, 10.vi.1993, leg. Tarmann (coll. Burmann, Innsbruck; TLMF);
Karsholt (slide OK 4648 3) (ZMUC)
Karsholt (slide OK 4648 3) (ZMUC). Norway. <J, On, Vagarno, 4.VÜ.1983
Tussilago farfara), leg. Karsholt (TLMF; ZMUC)
Turkey: Holotype Xystophora retusella $, "Holo-type" "Mann 1863 Brussa"
"Retusella $ Type Rbl. 1891" "Mus.Vind. 15.306 5" (NMV). Great Britain
(England): 9 <J, 11 9, Dorset, Lyme Regis, sea level, la. 17.vii. 1988 (Tussilago
farfara), leg. Karsholt (TLMF; ZMUC). Netherlands: 9, Brunsummer Heide,
10.viii.1988, leg. Schreurs (Wf 6163 9) (coll. van der Wolf, Nuenen);